The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-14
zAB1rs OF MEN AND WOMEN.
sitins the Nails, Biting the Lips, Stick
ing Out the Tongue, Etc.
IT,. a. Ol,ic1rrrn Mnarn

ing OUT CQ6 IO0guo, ECC.
From the Chicago Neaos.
uJust look at that grill"
ayes: it is Miss Blank. What about
hers"
"Don't YOU see her tongues"
ooh. YES. Isn't it perfectly dreadful?
They saw she always sticks it out like that
-rhar she's thinking about anything"
The voung woman in question was prone
1.-Two fine east side of State street early
yesterday morning, attired in bewitching
Eo,ost1me and a pensive expression, while
! tbe fin of her little tongue protruded in q
MANNER anything but fascinating between
Two lips Of the description known to novel
Lists as coral
ouaintances, ''she always does that when
s5mehtful or worried. It's one of these ter
lille habits which, when once contracted
s+iry closer than a million brothers. Miss
blank began it when child, and no one
o,-e1. took the trouble to break her of it,
4 Nov moor girl, it mortifies her terribly to be
Hold aboutit, though, of course, she is anxious
4 70 cure herself But then nearly every one
HAS some curious little habit which he
h 1would be very glad to break it if he could /;
n some trick more OF less unpleasant, caused
q in the first place probably by nervousness
a We all know the man who tugs at his NOUS
+acbe and the one who is perpetually pulling
y mn his collar. Then there is the girl
q Who is always rubbing one eye as if in the
q search of a stray eyelash, and the man who
Il can't be quite happy without some more or
Il less fragile article to twist and bend and
n turn about in his fingers. Anything and
d everything from your finest lace handker-
q chief to your new and extremely delicate
8 naner cutter, is sacrificed to the demon of
q nervousness which possesses him, and yet
n Won can't find it in your heart to rob him of
4 his plaything. He is quite happy and at his
q ease so long as he is allowed to
81 twirl and twist as much as he
4 wants to. but bereft of the temporary OBJ
4 iect of his affection he would be abjectly
q can talk fuently and well while winding
4 something -anything-about his finger,
8 who. without it, would be constrained,
awkward, silent. One of the most annoy
4 ing forms of this disease is the incessant tat
q too which some people keep up on their
knees or the table or whatever happens to
4 be most convenient as a keyboard. have
n noticed that musicians usually indulge the
4 habit. and it is a very trying one, though l
Il don't know that it is worse than 'twiddling
your thumb. You don't know what that
is? Why, clasping your hands with the
fingers interaced and then moving the
thumbs slowly, very slowly, round each
81 other Nearly all old English people are adj
81 dicted to this habit, and look upon it as a
q refuge from EMU during times OF enforced
q idleness. such as that blind mans holiday,
q when it is too dark to work or read, and yet
not dark enough according to Englth no
lions. to light the gas At this time of day
8 an old English woman will sit and 'twiddle
j her thumbs so many times from right to left
81 and then so many times from left to right,
II until one begins to think she has discovered
q the secret of perpetual motion. The habit
3 gains such hold upon men that they are
q unable to sit unOccupied for moment
& without Immediately beginning to 'twid-
u die .....
a "Of course, every one knows people who
u bite their nails, and nearly all of us can re-
i member some girl who has destroyed what
q was intended for pretty mouth by a sense
less fashion of biting, or rather gnawlng, at
4 her lip This is one of the most difficult
! habits to break, and at the same time one of
the commoneSt. If you want to see how
1 widespread it is, just go over to one of the
! State street dry goods establishments about
| 10 o'clock on any fine morning. Monday
morning is best, because Monday is
4 the favorite shopping day. Didn't you know
that9 Oh, yes, it's fact. Any 1oor-walker
will tell you that more business is done on
Monday morning than any other time dur
I ing the week-that is, in the big shops. OF
q course, in the cheap ones Saturday is the
q great day. Why should Monday be popu-
a lar? Oh, suppose it is the reaction after
81 Sundays enforced idleness On Sunday
one can't shop, and when one wakes on
& Monday morning it is so delightful to feel
81 that all restrictions are removed, and that
Il there is nothing to prevent one from shop
ping all day if inclined to- ALWAYS go my
self on Monday, and, as a rule, meet nearly
allmy friends and half of them, l notice,
invariably bite their lips when considering
anything seriously. When a woman asks:
'DOyou think this will washF or DO you
really believe this silk Will not cutH or con-
fdently informs the counter that she lis
afraid 16 yards won't be enough, she nearly
| always bites her lip and very ugly and in
furious fashion it is. If the lower lip is the
one attacked, the pretty curve is in time de-
stroyed and the fullness fiattened out, while
II the upper lip is ill-treated the results are
almost worse, for it becomes heightened in
very unbecoming manner. Then some
women bite the inside of their lips, at the
SIDE, just at the 'gussat' of the mouth, and
tins ends in a chronic pout. | am con-
vnced that if the girls who indulge in this
trick realized fully its i'll effects they would
make more serious efforts to overcome it.
1t is comparatively easy to do this when one
Eyoung, and it is quite possible to break
children of such habits.
There are lots of other curious little
ways peculiar to individuals. | know a
man when embarrassed, always taps the
SIDE OF his nose with his little finger, and a
girl who Is so given to pushing back her hair
Dehlnd her left ear that she has worn bald
spot there"